Why has he not been charged yet? Defrauding taxpayers? Misusing his position? I dunno, something? Can you really be that shitty without breaking the law?
The answer is yes, he can be that bad without breaking the law. Nothing he is known to have done was enough to cross that line.
As for where he is now, he is now a Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute working on "issues pertaining to technology and innovation, telecommunications regulation, and market-based incentives for investment in broadband deployment." He also recently joined Searchlight Capital Partners, a company that owns several ISPs including Ziply Fiber and Consolidated Communicat
While claiming "prices went up," they managed to gloss over the fact that prices for the same tiers generally went down, and that the "increase" was from people buying much faster access, or adding more types of access (and yes, it's mentioned in the article, but downplayed).
So while you could get 10 mbps internet for less money, the writer made a really strong effort at hiding the fact that people bought higher and higher tiers of internet service at a lower price per megabit.
You obviously don't understand that higher speed inevitably becomes the new normal, and people at the lower tiers increasingly get left behind...unless they somehow scrape together the money to pay for higher bandwidth, and allow their kids to cope with the on-line necessities of modern education.
You can get low-end DSL service for cheap...after all, it's yesterday's "high speed".
That's the thing. The deregulation crowd wants to delete all the regulations without regard for measured effectiveness. In practice, they often actually mean delete all regulations that cost the incumbent corporations money but not the ones that cost consumers money or that block new competition, but that's just the usual political lies.
What you're talking about would be better described as sensible regulation.
The answer is yes, he can be that bad without breaking the law. Nothing he is known to have done was enough to cross that line.
As for where he is now, he is now a Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute working on "issues pertaining to technology and innovation, telecommunications regulation, and market-based incentives for investment in broadband deployment." He also recently joined Searchlight Capital Partners, a company that owns several ISPs including Ziply Fiber and Consolidated Communicat
While claiming "prices went up," they managed to gloss over the fact that prices for the same tiers generally went down, and that the "increase" was from people buying much faster access, or adding more types of access (and yes, it's mentioned in the article, but downplayed).
So while you could get 10 mbps internet for less money, the writer made a really strong effort at hiding the fact that people bought higher and higher tiers of internet service at a lower price per megabit.
An example: AT&T 940 megab
You obviously don't understand that higher speed inevitably becomes the new normal, and people at the lower tiers increasingly get left behind...unless they somehow scrape together the money to pay for higher bandwidth, and allow their kids to cope with the on-line necessities of modern education.
You can get low-end DSL service for cheap...after all, it's yesterday's "high speed".
That's the thing. The deregulation crowd wants to delete all the regulations without regard for measured effectiveness. In practice, they often actually mean delete all regulations that cost the incumbent corporations money but not the ones that cost consumers money or that block new competition, but that's just the usual political lies.
What you're talking about would be better described as sensible regulation.